BAME minority? Don't join! - Customer Experience Specialist Xero Employee Review

1.0
Oct 11, 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Competitive salary Location Free cans of pop Equipment Wellbeing days

Cons

Boring job role, literally copy and pasting templates to customers, which you may edit occasionally. Forced culture, felt like a cult, literally! Full of teenagers. Anyone from the BAME community get picked on. I was warned by people of minority backgrounds as soon as I joined, didn't believe them but after a few days I found out. Covert racism is something that's shattering the dreams of the younger generation and we all need to stand up and warn eachother of businesses like Xero. Being told by Xero HR, who call themselves 'people experience'. "How could you say bullying exists in this company, I'm shocked, this is the best company ever" that's not something g you say to an employee who's raising a grievance, especially a grievance in the first time of their life, as treatment was far, far, too bad.

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